EuroMPM-Research Streams 2008


Business Rules and Decision Tables


The area of business rules and decision tables belongs to the main research areas of the crew that implemented the European Masters in Project Management since years. Some projects could be placed here - several conference contributions were published - the students of EuroMPM are folly integrated into these research activities.

In 2008 an International Workshop will bring together former pioneers of decision table approaches and some researches today busy in that field.

Topics of the workshops and additional publications will be:
  • Concepts
    • Basic concepts of decision tables
    • Completeness of decision tables
    • Contradiction in decision tables
    • Syntax and semantics of rules
    • Networks of decision tables
    • Advanced concepts of business rules and decision tables including fuzziness
    • Integration of event-process-chains and decision tables
  • Cases
    • Traffic rules
    • Traffic offenders
    • Public transport
    • Quality management
  • Software
    • PROLOGA
    • LF-ET

E-Commerce: Standards: Catalogs, Transactions, Classification of Commodities


Standardized Catalogs, Transactions and Classification Systems for Commodities are the backbone of e-commerce.

In the EuroMPM we analize the concepts, applications and the further development of these standards. We also take part in the evolution of these standards.

Project Management - Standards

  • Analysis and comparison of standards
  • Conference management as project management - case based upon IDAACS
  • Ontology of a conference

Project Management - Creativity and Innovations

  • Concepts of creativity and creative problem solving
  • Concepts of TRIZ
  • A TRIZ-model for projects


Dependency Analysis


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